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A Wisconsin woman is dead after a house fire near the Michigan border. According to the Marinette Police Department, 58-year-old Susan M. Nielsen, of Marinette was found at the scene of the fire on Logan Avenue at approximately 1:17 p.m. on June 5. Marinette is located across the Menominee River...

Marinette Avenue and Hall Avenue in the City of Marinette will have sections of deteriorated concrete pavement replaced. Lane closures will be marked with barrels and other delineators, and motorists will need to use a single lane of traffic or alternate travel routes.

MENOMINEE — The 37th annual edition of the Free Kids’ Fishing Derby will take place Saturday at the Menominee Marina. The derby is open to all children ages 13-and-under and must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Registration takes place at 8 a.m. at the Menominee American Legion, with the derby starting shortly afterwards. A free lunch will be served at 11 a.m. Registration forms are now available at Menominee City Hall.

MARINETTE — Six members of the Marinette softball team were named All-Northern Eastern Conference performers as the NEC unveiled its 2023 All-Conference teams on Thursday. Junior pitcher Wynn Erdman was selected to the All-NEC First Team for the second consecutive season, while freshman infielder Barrett Cole and junior outfielder Destiny Walker were voted to the Second Team. Three more members of the Marinette infield, seniors Cienna Grawey and Peyton Berman,...

Schedule subject to change Today’s eventsNo events scheduled Saturday’s eventsLegion baseball Negaunee at Menominee (DH), 11 a.m. Appleton Legion at Marinette (DH), noon Sunday’s eventsLegion baseball Marinette at Wausau (DH), noon

Presentation of a Life Saving Certificate to part-time city employee Kyle Klaver was a highlight of the Peshtigo City Council meeting on Tuesday, June 6. Council also approved KK Park as the name of a new park on W. Railroad Street at the south end of Ellis Ave., and authorized the city’s Fire Department to hold a ribeye steak sandwich fundraiser on the grounds of Lofaro’s Fresh Foods Market on Friday, June 16.

In March 2022, a sewer line across the old hospital property was capped where it entered the city’s sewer. In May, as the potential developer for the hospital property was doing their due diligence, questions arose whether the University’s sewer connection ran to the capped sewer line on the hospital property. That property is currently owned by Aurora Health Care while the University property is owned by the county. Warren Howard, the city’s Water and Wastewater Operations Manager, told the Marinette City Council that he became aware of the issue May 10th. After some investigation, it did not appear there was flow in the line on the hospital property, but there was also no flow detected on another lateral to the University Property near the intersection of University Drive and Bayshore Street. Howard speculated the wastewater could be going into the ground.

The Peshtigo Library would like to thank Lori Brabant for her service to the Marinette County Library and especially her work at the Peshtigo Library. Lori has accepted another position within Marinette County. On Friday, June 2nd, the community and library staff thanked her for her contributions with a celebration of pizza and cupcakes. Thank you, Lori! You will be missed.

Peshtigo School Board’s Finance, Personnel and Negotiations Committee will meet in closed executive session at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 7 in the District Office for discussion with legal counsel that the agenda says “could result in possible litigation regarding property transfer, sale or purchase.” Subject of the meeting is identified as: “Negotiations regarding property south of the middle/high school and bordering the Fire Cemetery.”

MARINETTE — One of the spots on the coveted North Eastern Conference All Conference golf team went to Marinette’s Brady Eastman. Eastman nabbed one of the five slots on the All-Conference First Team and was the lone Marine golfer to make the cut. Eastman shot a 90 at the WIAA Division 2 Regionals at Glacier Woods Golf Course in Amherst, Wis. to advance to the Sectional round of the playoffs,...

PESHTIGO — Peshtigo’s Grant Bauman was chosen as the top golfer in the Packerland Conference as the conference released its All-Conference golf team for the 2023 season. Bauman, a senior, qualified for the WIAA State championship tournament and is the only Peshtigo golfer to make the cut for the All-Conference teams. Isaak Aune and Tre Wienke gave Sturgeon Bay two All-Conference choices, the most of any school. ...

The Marinette Common Council approved an escrow agreement to cover the costs of creating a Tax Increment District and a Developers agreement for a proposed $20 million dollar plus project to add on 300,000 feet of warehouse space to the south end of the former Aerial Building on Woleske Road. Cynthia Kuber of K&K Intergrated Logistics which now owns the Aerial Building says the proposed new space would used by Johnson Controls for their Distribution Center.

MENOMINEE — Nashville recording artists Bobby Darren and Sheila Marie will perform their show, “The Last Ride,” at 2 p.m. on Father’s Day, Sunday, June 18, at Blesch Auditorium, 1200 11th Ave., Menominee. Doors open at 1 p.m. and tickets are $50 in advance and $60 at the door. People can pick up tickets at Marinette Farm and Garden, 630 Hattie St. Marinette, call Julie at 920-450-9460 for credit card orders or send check and money orders to Starzz Productions, 1100 W. Wisconsin Ave., Kaukauna,...

MENOMINEE — Dennis W. Klitzke, a Menominee City Council member, Great Lakes Specialty Services owner and active church member, died last Wednesday. He was 68. In place of flowers, people can call Holy Spirit Church at 906-863-5239 to make donations for a scholarship that will be set up in his honor to benefit Menominee High School Students going into the trades. Josh Jones, a city council member, said he noticed...

KOHLER, Wis. — The 2022-23 high school sports season wrapped up with the WIAA State golf tournament, held over Monday and Tuesday at Blackwolf Run-Meadow Valley Golf Course. In the Division 2 individual tournament, Peshtigo’s Grant Bauman surged to a tie for third overall after trimming three strokes off his total from Monday, shooting a 74 on Tuesday to jump sixth spots from ninth overall. Bauman’s two-day total of 151...

Traffic along Highway 57 north of Valmy was slowed considerably Wednesday morning after a delivery truck and a passenger car were involved in an accident that sent three people to the hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries. The Door County Sheriff’s Department responded to the accident just before ten o’clock at the intersection of Highway 57 and Clarks Lake Road. Deputy Sheriff Pat McCarty says it appears that one vehicle was eastbound on Clarks Lake Road while the other was traveling south on Highway 57 when the accident occurred.

At the Pound Village Board’s regular monthly meeting on Monday, June 12, Public Works/Utility Director Scott Fuelle will update the board on the rate case study for the village’s water utility. The board will discuss the 2022 Consumer Confidence Report Certification, and consider CMAR resolution for 2023. The...

OCONTO FALLS — A farmers market doesn’t happen without hard work. “We’re just a group of volunteers,” said Sophie Ford, lead organizer of the Oconto County Farmers Market. “We wanted to have a farmers market.” The farmers market, in its third year, is one of the area farmers markets that the community can frequent this summer to support local vendors. The Oconto Farmers Market is open from 4 to 8...

PESHTIGO — Four Peshtigo student-athletes received Scholar Athlete honors from the Packerland Conference. Grant Bauman, Andrew Nelson, Allison Peters and Brooklyn Phillips represent the Bulldogs on the 2022-23 Scholar Athlete list and are four of 33 total student-athletes to receive the award. Packerland Scholar Athletes are second-semester seniors who have earned at least four varsity letters through participation in sports sanctioned by the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA). ...

MARINETTE — Summer is right around the corner, which means that Legion baseball will soon take center stage. Both the Marinette and Menominee Legion baseball teams kick off their seasons on Saturday, with Marinette traveling to Plover for a doubleheader against Appleton Legion and Plover while the Red Wave host Negaunee in a doubleheader of their own at Spies Field. Menominee’s game gets underway at 11 a.m., while Post 39...